—especially anyone intending Hajj or ʿUmrah—before assuming iḥrām.
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The Council recommends that the competent authority be instructed to act promptly on the directive of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques—may Allah preserve him—regarding the establishment of the Dhāt ʿIrq miqāt and the provision of all necessary services and facilities, as announced by His Excellency the former Minister of Hajj and Awqāf and published in Al-Jazīrah newspaper, issue 7470, dated 19/9/1413 AH.
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The mosque is to be built at the site proposed by the committee in its report, for the reasons it cited. Success is from Allah, and may blessings and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family and his Companions.
Decision of the Council of Senior Scholars concerning the spatial miqāts: Resolution No. 73
After examining the evidences, consulting the writings of the scholars on the spatial miqāts and discussing the issue from every angle, the Council unanimously rules as follows:
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The fatwa issued by Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh ibn Zayd Āl Maḥmūd permitting Jeddah to serve as a miqāt for air and sea travellers is invalid, for it is unsupported by any text from the Book of Allah, the Sunnah of His Messenger, or the consensus of the early generations, and no recognised Muslim scholar before him ever held such an opinion.
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It is impermissible for anyone who passes by one of the established spatial miqāts, or who comes in line with one of them by air or by sea, to go beyond it without first entering the state of iḥrām, as the proofs attest and as the scholars—may Allah have mercy on them—have affirmed.
Difference among the scholars:
The three Imams—Abū Ḥanīfah, Mālik and Aḥmad—hold that iḥrām is obligatory for anyone heading toward Mecca, whether or not he intends one of the rites, basing their view on what al-Bayhaqī narrated from Ibn